Order of Man - BRECKEN MICHLER ｜ The Adventure of a Lifetime (Our Moose Hunting Story)

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. Embrace your fears and boldly chart

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00:00:16.940 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:22.420 you can call yourself a man. What's up guys? This is Ryan Michler,

00:00:26.400 the host and the founder of the order of man podcast and movement. I'm glad that you're here.

00:00:31.060 We've got a little bit of a different one for you today. I'm here in my office with one of my

00:00:34.880 favorite people on the planet. Also my favorite hunting buddy on the planet. So we're going to

00:00:41.260 get to that in just a minute. I'll explain who that is. A lot of you guys probably already know.

00:00:44.560 But before we do just want to make a quick mention. If you're here for the first time that we're having

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00:01:05.340 and really make the most of the end of this year. We're in the fourth quarter. So let's finish strong

00:01:10.500 so we can roll into the new year better than it was for 2022. All right, guys, with that said,

00:01:15.920 like I said earlier, I'm here in my office with my, one of my favorite humans and definitely my

00:01:21.400 favorite hunting partner. And that's my son, Mr. Brecken Michler, man in the making himself.

00:01:26.280 What's up guys?

00:01:27.380 Glad to have you here in studio today.

00:01:29.480 Yeah.

00:01:29.820 Which happens to be my office, which happens to be in our house.

00:01:32.320 Yeah.

00:01:33.060 But how are you doing this morning?

00:01:34.880 Good. I'm sore from benching yesterday. My chest is really sore, but other than that, pretty good.

00:01:43.780 You're sore.

00:01:44.780 Yeah.

00:01:45.140 From benching.

00:01:46.080 Yeah.

00:01:47.020 Hmm. Do you get sore immediately? It usually takes me a day or two.

00:01:50.960 Yeah. It usually takes me like one night and then I feel it in the morning.

00:01:55.040 Maybe because you haven't been benching as much as you should be is why you're so sore.

00:01:59.480 Or I haven't been benching for like two weeks now or something like that.

00:02:03.040 Yeah.

00:02:03.220 I think it's actually three weeks. No, because we had the legacy, skip that one. Then we had like

00:02:09.760 an off week, went, then we had the main event and then our moose hunt. So it's been two weeks

00:02:17.280 since I've squatted, deadlifted or benched.

00:02:19.420 It's always so busy. I'm amazed at how busy it always is. Always have something going on,

00:02:23.400 whether it's an event or a hunt or this or that, there's always something to do.

00:02:27.320 Yeah. And I felt pretty good. I broke a PR on squat yesterday. So 215 for five. And then

00:02:33.980 I deadlifted 255 for one. So it's only 40 pounds away from my max in football season. So yeah. And

00:02:42.020 I didn't deadlift for two weeks. So I feel pretty good about that.

00:02:44.780 Yeah, man. You're doing awesome.

00:02:46.040 Thanks.

00:02:46.220 I've been really, actually, I've been really inspired by watching you because I'd never

00:02:50.920 really got into lifting when I was a kid. Yeah. I did a little bit here and there when I was in

00:02:54.960 football, but it just wasn't, wasn't a thing for me. Yeah. I never really enjoyed it all that much.

00:03:00.420 Like it's hard just to lift weights. I would rather throw a football or jujitsu where you're

00:03:09.040 actually going against somebody else, like more dynamic than lifting. You are going against someone

00:03:13.960 while you're lifting weights. Well, you're going against the bar, the weight. Yeah. But what I'm

00:03:18.700 saying is, I know, I know what you're saying. It's just, it's more dynamic. So it's all, I'm not

00:03:22.620 saying it's bad or wrong or like if, if it's something that's cool for you, man, whatever it is,

00:03:27.540 just do it. But I just was never able to get into any sort of consistent lifting. The most I was

00:03:33.680 able to do was CrossFit. But again, that's a little bit more dynamic than your traditional

00:03:39.240 power lifting session. Cause you could do competitions. Well, there is competitions

00:03:45.260 in power lifting, but I'm saying at the gym, when you do wads, like you have other people to go

00:03:50.000 against while at the gym, while you're power lifting, you're only going against like yourself in

00:03:54.760 the bar. Yeah. Maybe it's a focus thing for me. Like it's, it's hard for me to focus on one thing

00:04:00.140 for a sustained period of time. Yeah. That's true actually. Because at CrossFit, it's like do

00:04:05.360 burpees. Okay. You did 10 of those now do 10 wall balls. Okay. Now you did that. Now do

00:04:10.380 overhead squats, you know, it's like bouncing around. Yeah. The hardest workouts at CrossFit are

00:04:17.220 the chipper wads where it's like do all hundred. She loves those. Yeah. And that's where we differ

00:04:23.600 on that. But where it's like a hunt, do a hundred of something like a hundred. Can I do 10 and then

00:04:29.360 something else and come back and do 10 rounds and much rather do that. Yeah. You seem very tired

00:04:36.460 today. I am. You need to wake up. It's weird. Cause we go to sleep like eight 30 and then wake up at

00:04:42.560 four 30, but I've been waking up at like six 30 now. So I have two hours of sleep, extra sleep from

00:04:48.380 the moose hunt. So yeah, you got like 10 hours of sleep last night. Yeah. I just need to catch up on

00:04:53.220 it. No, you only got eight hours. Cause you went to bed at 10 last night. No, nine, nine, nine last

00:04:59.600 night. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I thought I'd have you on because we wanted to have you as a special

00:05:04.580 guest because we had something very exciting take place last week. Stop yawning. I know I'm tired.

00:05:11.020 Something very exciting. Your mullet by the way is looking radical. Thank you. Anyways, we had

00:05:15.860 something very exciting happen last week, which was our moose hunt. And what's cool in the state

00:05:23.660 of Maine, it was not cool, but is that you have to draw out for a moose tag. And we drew out for a

00:05:29.840 bull moose tag earlier in the year. And we have been putting in for three years, three years. And it

00:05:36.720 usually, not usually, but for a lot of people, it could take 20, 25, 30 years to ever draw out a

00:05:44.040 tag. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. John Milan, a friend of ours, he was the one who actually texted

00:05:50.520 me. And he's like, bro, you drew out for this moose tag. I'm like, what? I was just putting in

00:05:54.320 for points. So for those of you who don't know how the system works and every state's a little

00:05:59.600 different, but they're all very similar in the way they draw these out is you put in to draw out.

00:06:04.280 And if you don't get a tag, then you get a series of points and the odds of you drawing out

00:06:10.760 in future years are higher, the more points that you have. So we were just putting in to get our

00:06:15.560 points. And I never expected after three years, we draw a tag. Yeah. And I think all the guides and

00:06:21.460 people up North thought it was pretty crazy that we drew out in three years. Yeah. You know,

00:06:26.040 as interesting as once we drew out for that, we got bombarded in emails and physical letters,

00:06:31.760 mail. Yeah. From guide services, from butchers, from taxidermists, all wanting to solicit our

00:06:39.640 business. It was crazy. It's interesting here in Maine, how many, it's a big deal. I think they do

00:06:45.680 it, where do they do the draw? Do they do it in Kennebunk or somewhere like that? I can't remember

00:06:50.040 exactly. I mean, that might not be right, but they do a draw and it's a big event. Like they actually

00:06:54.640 turn it into like a festival or something for the moose lottery. Now, obviously we didn't go down.

00:06:59.180 They do like moose calling there and like see who has the best call in the state of Maine or

00:07:05.260 whatever. It's pretty cool. We didn't hear much calling when we were out there. No, we heard like

00:07:09.480 a cows, like one cow call once, but the rut was pretty much over. So. And so what, what is the

00:07:15.280 rut? Again, there's, there's probably a lot of guys listening that know what that is. And then

00:07:19.080 there's probably a lot of people who are listening who don't know what we're talking about. It's just the

00:07:22.720 breeding season for an animal pretty much. Yeah. That's what it is. It's when the, it's when the

00:07:28.540 females go into heat. Do you know what that means? Not really, but like. Basically their hormones are 1.00

00:07:33.800 raring and ready to go. And then they, they have a scent or something. I'm assuming it's a scent

00:07:39.620 that the bulls and the calls that the bulls pick up on. They're like, oh, it's time, time to breed.

00:07:44.260 Yeah. And what's interesting about this, and you're actually learning this too,

00:07:49.180 not to the extent obviously, is that when it's the rut, other, otherwise pretty intelligent animals

00:07:57.740 start doing dumb things. Yeah. Like the bulls, whether it's elk or bucks, a deer or bulls and

00:08:04.380 moose, the males start acting like fools. Like they hear a call and they are rushing through the woods, 0.97

00:08:12.100 it's coming straight to that. And it could be the hunter just sitting there ready for them. It's

00:08:15.520 crazy. It's crazy. And they don't, uh, they, they aren't as careful and cautious as they normally

00:08:21.300 are. That's what gets them killed in the rut. But that's, that's humans too. Yeah. You know,

00:08:26.040 like, like you, as you like girls, it's like, oh girl, and you girls in the brain and you just 1.00

00:08:31.180 start acting like a fool. It's like, man, and it's not unique to you. It's, it's, we all do it as men. 0.99

00:08:37.580 Yeah. It's pretty, it's kind of funny thinking about it, but yeah, I don't even know. It's

00:08:43.020 funny thinking about it that we do that. Well, I mean, we're animals too, right? Yeah. It's very

00:08:47.500 similar. I mean, obviously different in the way that we are, our mating typically is different.

00:08:52.620 Like we have typically, not everybody, but typically, you know, you have one person that

00:08:56.920 you're faithful to. And, but obviously it's not like that in the, in the animal kingdom.

00:09:01.540 So the rut was over last week, which means unfortunately that the bulls aren't acting 0.94

00:09:07.780 as dumb. Now they're wising up a little bit better. And not reacting to calls and that type 0.95

00:09:13.220 of stuff. Yeah. Cause you can call them in during the rut, but afterwards you can still,

00:09:17.080 I think a little bit, but it's very difficult to do. So we might have a cow come late heat or

00:09:22.300 whatever they call that. So I think that's what it is. Yeah. Late rut or whatever. But yeah. So

00:09:28.060 we went up with Bo's buck. We were North of Rangeley about an hour or so.

00:09:33.480 Yeah. It was like a two and a half hour drive or something like that, or maybe just two.

00:09:38.140 About two hours from where we are in it. We were right on the border of Maine and New Hampshire

00:09:44.020 and Canada actually. So it was, it was the wilderness, the vast wilderness. Bo's buck mountain

00:09:50.180 camps took care of us, fed us really well. The food was delicious. Yeah. The food was crazy.

00:09:54.320 Like unbelievably, unexpectedly delicious. Yeah. I mean, I thought I'd be fine, but they

00:09:59.760 have a great chef. The portions were huge too. Huge portions. I don't know what was my favorite

00:10:04.220 meal. That shrimp gumbo I had the first night. I don't think you had it. No. Cause you weren't

00:10:08.940 there. That shrimp gumbo. It was perfect. The tenderloin, the pork tenderloin was my favorite.

00:10:14.160 That was delicious too. Maybe that was my favorite. Yeah. Anyways, they put us up. We had a great

00:10:18.840 guide. Mike took us around and showed us around. And that first day you weren't there.

00:10:24.300 Mm-hmm. Because. JV football game. Right. So you chose football over hunting. Mm-hmm.

00:10:31.840 Which is fine. You make your choices. Sometimes you have two good choices in life. Yeah. And

00:10:36.340 you just. I got to do both. So. Yeah. Yeah. So it worked out, but yeah. So you were at

00:10:41.220 the JV football game and you told me that I, if I saw a state record, I could shoot it.

00:10:50.060 Yeah. But if. Is anything smaller. Don't shoot anything else. Yeah. So we were out there and

00:10:56.460 probably for the first, I would say 20 minutes on the first day before you got there, where

00:11:02.800 we went, we saw a moose. Yeah. Like within 20 minutes. And he was decent. He was a decent

00:11:08.280 moose. He was probably, our guide Mike said about 30 to 35 inches, which is the spread.

00:11:13.780 It's the widest points on each antler on a moose. So 30, 35 inch. Decent. Big bodied,

00:11:19.980 but decent. Yeah. So I didn't shoot him. And then I don't think I saw anything else the

00:11:24.480 rest of that day, but you guys came in that evening. Yeah. Were you going to say something?

00:11:29.260 No, I just was agreeing that you didn't see anything else for the rest of the day.

00:11:32.980 And then, yeah. So you and, and, and mom and the kids came and we had a good night, had some

00:11:39.380 dinner, spent a couple hours together. And then we got up early and went after it.

00:11:42.120 And what did we see the next morning?

00:11:45.560 We were driving up to the top of the road and I spotted a body of one. And there's actually like

00:11:51.780 at least four that we could see. There's two cows and two bulls that we could see. So

00:11:57.640 we tried stalking them. I only saw one cow in three bulls is what I saw.

00:12:04.900 You saw three bulls? I think there was four bulls in that group because those two were sparring and

00:12:10.480 then the two raghorns. Yeah. I saw the two small ones and I was just sitting there waiting

00:12:15.100 and just watching them. I saw the cow. I saw a small bull, saw another small bull. And then I

00:12:22.060 saw a big bull. I was like, Oh, that's a big bull. Yeah. And even the guide was like, Oh, that's a

00:12:27.060 good bull. And so we started making our way down this like old logging road kind of to cut into this

00:12:32.320 cut into this cut. Yeah. That's what they're called.

00:12:35.640 The cut. Let's talk about the cuts in a minute. Cause that's kind of interesting. Anyways,

00:12:38.640 proceed. Oh, are we talking about it? We can talk about it now. Do you know what they,

00:12:42.760 do you want to explain? You go ahead first. So up in these, in these mountainous areas,

00:12:47.620 the logging companies come in and they clear a portion of, of the wilderness and they obviously

00:12:52.840 take those logs and sell them and do whatever they do with them, but they call those the cuts.

00:12:56.440 And so I was asking our guide about it. I said, is this like, how much of this do they cut? Is this

00:13:03.120 good? Is this bad? He's like, Oh no, it's great for the moose. If the cuts weren't here,

00:13:06.320 the moose wouldn't even be here, which I was surprised about that. I was like, really?

00:13:09.500 Why is that? And he said, well, in the cuts is where they feed because in the thicketed forested

00:13:14.440 areas, there's no sunlight that gets in there. So they can't feed as well in those forested areas.

00:13:20.380 So it's when it's cut down that the shrubs and the stuff that the plants that the moose eat

00:13:26.180 are available to the moose. So they actually come out into the cuts and then go back into the woods.

00:13:30.680 Yeah. So that was kind of interesting. I didn't know that.

00:13:32.180 I thought that was cool. Like with the CM, is it, was it CMP central main power?

00:13:39.300 Yeah. What about them?

00:13:40.600 Well, I was talking with Chris McCabe. That's when he came over when I accidentally illegally

00:13:47.300 caught that fish.

00:13:48.420 You accidentally caught it. You caught him on purpose.

00:13:49.820 No, I caught him purposely, but it didn't mean for it to be illegal. Cause I forgot that

00:13:55.600 it was the last day of the, yeah, it was just out of season.

00:13:59.660 Whatever it was. Yeah. Um, but we were asking him about like the CMP corridor and he's like,

00:14:06.280 my dad hates the cuts, but they're actually amazing for all the animals to come out there

00:14:11.200 and feed. So it's good for us. It's good for the animals too. So, so Chris McCabe is a good

00:14:16.140 friend of ours. He's a game warden here in Maine. He was on the show, uh, Northwood's law.

00:14:22.020 Yeah. They're doing New Hampshire warden service. Which is way more lame. I like the Maine. Yeah.

00:14:27.980 Maine. Maine is way cooler. It's way better for sure. They can't win a baseball game to save their

00:14:32.440 lives against New Hampshire, but, but the show is better. Uh, yeah. So he came over that day

00:14:39.160 because why? Cause I caught that fish. That fish was huge. Yeah. I caught a small mouth. That was

00:14:46.440 probably six pounds or more like a monster. He was, I thought I hooked onto a rock and then I lifted up

00:14:53.200 and I see this body float up and I thought it was a log. And I was like, seriously,

00:14:57.360 then it started swimming away. But you called me, I wasn't there at the lake, but you called me like,

00:15:02.060 dad, you got to come down here. And I was nervous. Cause it was right after like the place got

00:15:06.880 vandalized, huh? Yeah. Cause you guys had gone down there several weeks earlier and we're fishing

00:15:11.560 by herself, by herself, which is fine. That's cool. And you're old enough to do that. And

00:15:16.920 you had called us because you had to file a police report because you were the first person to see

00:15:23.700 some destruction or something from some vandalism. Yeah. They burned a bench and threw some trash

00:15:29.620 around or something. The water, like everything. Yeah. So then you go down again and you're like,

00:15:34.000 dad, come down. You're going to hurry. I'm like, Oh great. What else is going on?

00:15:37.100 And you're like, tell me. And I'm like, no, just come down. You're like, you better tell me.

00:15:40.940 So I told you that I had a huge fish. Yeah. So I went down there and it was massive.

00:15:44.940 Yeah. I was looking at the dates. I'm like, it's not even fishing season. I thought you

00:15:48.620 were kidding. I'm like, don't, don't be kidding with me. And then you're like, no, I'm dead serious.

00:15:53.940 Oh crap. Cause I did kill it. Cause I don't know if I was going to eat it or what I was going 0.99

00:15:59.880 to do with it. Hopefully you'd eat it. That's why you would catch it. If it was legal, that would

00:16:05.600 have been a cool mount too. Cause it was, it was a big small mill. Yeah, it was, it was.

00:16:11.380 So yeah. So you, you decided that you, I, I, I said, what do you want to do? And you said,

00:16:15.740 well, I don't know. I'm, I don't know what I should do. And you decided to call the warden

00:16:18.940 service and you called Chris and he came over and he took the fish. He said, it's like the second

00:16:23.860 biggest small mouth he's ever seen. That was a big fish. Yeah. Uh, anyways, I think we were

00:16:28.600 talking about Chris. Chris is a friend of ours. So, uh, you know, he's, he's, he's a good guy,

00:16:33.740 but we were talking about the cuts. So we, we make our way down through this little logging,

00:16:37.980 old covered up dirt road or logging trail or whatever it was. And we get in position and we

00:16:42.240 set up on our shooting sticks, probably I would say 80 ish to a hundred yards out from where we

00:16:46.520 saw this, this cow. Go ahead. And then, um, and then the little raghorn was being a little

00:16:54.000 punk and kept walking around us and staring at us the whole time. I don't think he took his eyes

00:17:00.240 off us once. And that cow alerted when staring at us. So we were like the raghorn walked off.

00:17:06.920 So we're like, we'll just walk down and hopefully this cow doesn't get us. And I thought Mike saw

00:17:12.480 the cow, but when we were walking down there to see if we could find that big bull, uh, I see the

00:17:18.500 cow with its head up and its ears just staring straight at us. And I thought Mike saw, so I

00:17:22.740 didn't tell him cause we were, he was like, whatever. So I just kept walking. Oh, I didn't know

00:17:27.480 that. Cause I was behind you guys. Yeah. And then we just get up there a little bit and we just hear

00:17:31.620 and like, we think there was at least 10 moose in there and they all ran into the woods and it,

00:17:39.040 it's scary having them run through the woods. It's so loud. It was amazing how they were just

00:17:43.920 crashing through the woods and it sounded like the woods were coming down. It was actually pretty cool.

00:17:48.560 Yeah. It's kind of scary if you were in those woods and you just heard that coming at you.

00:17:52.720 That's scary. Well, there was two bull moose that they were fighting. Yeah. That's what we were

00:17:56.960 trying to work our way down towards. I don't really think they were fighting too hard cause

00:18:00.660 it was just light paddling, but they may not have been, but they were sparring for sure.

00:18:05.940 And so we wanted to work down there because we saw the big one and we knew that he was down there.

00:18:09.940 Yeah. And so we were in position waiting for him to come across this open position, but never came.

00:18:15.040 So we started working our way down in there and busted them out of there. Yeah. Which was

00:18:19.480 disappointing. So in two days, two mornings, we'd seen bull moose. And then that evening,

00:18:24.280 what happened that evening? Oh, we went up on this road and we went

00:18:27.660 the whole afternoon without seeing anything. So we went up on this road and we turned around this

00:18:34.140 corner and I honestly thought Mike saw the guys that were blocking off the road cause he thought

00:18:39.740 they'd be blocking off that road too. So we pull up there and he's like, Oh, right there. And I was

00:18:44.420 looking off to the side and I turned around to see, like, I think I was going to see some cars blocking

00:18:49.700 the road, but it was just like this little bull just staring at us. And he walked onto the road

00:18:55.180 and I'll let you talk. No, he was probably 30 or 40 yards away from us when he walked on the road.

00:19:01.080 Yeah. And I got, I had my phone out and I started videoing and I was like, Hey, what do you want to

00:19:05.380 do? Do you want to, do you want to shoot this loose or do you want to pass? He was a little guy.

00:19:10.840 We knew, I mean, he was big from, you know, he's a moose, but he was still kind of a smaller moose.

00:19:15.280 I'm like, what do you want to do? Do you want to shoot this? Do you want to pass? And you said,

00:19:18.860 do you remember? Uh, did I say, I don't know. Yeah. You're like, I don't know. I'm like, well,

00:19:23.140 like, okay. Neither one of us know, but do you want to shoot it or do you want to pass? Like,

00:19:27.420 I don't know. I don't know. You kept saying, I don't know. Yeah. And I didn't really want to

00:19:30.840 shoot it because we had seen so many other bull moose. I'm like, no, this is kind of a smaller moose.

00:19:36.340 Yeah. It's not, I'm, we don't need to shoot this one. So because you said, I don't know,

00:19:42.240 I was like, all right, well, we won't shoot it. So we just watched him. I videoed him. We just

00:19:46.100 watched him. He walked up the road, you know, another 40 yards and then eventually tucked in

00:19:51.380 into the woods. Yeah. But that was a really cool encounter. Yeah. It was scary. And then it wasn't

00:19:56.360 scary. Moose are scary when you don't expect them to be there and you turn around and there's a huge

00:20:00.740 bull just staring at you. Yeah. For being such huge creatures, it's amazing how quickly they just

00:20:05.960 pop up and appear. Yeah. Because we had quite a few cows and we had a little moose that morning.

00:20:10.220 Remember a little, a little guy before shooting light or was that Wednesday? That was a day. 1.00

00:20:15.040 The next day. Yeah. Yeah. So we passed on this moose and I, you know, I felt okay about it,

00:20:20.480 but then the more that it went on, the more I was like, Oh, we should have shot that moose because,

00:20:25.180 so that was Tuesday and we saw a little, little teeny young bull moose on Wednesday morning with a cow

00:20:32.300 before shooting light. So we couldn't have shot it anyways. And then we didn't see anything for

00:20:36.800 Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. We saw, no, we saw another cow.

00:20:40.100 Well, I mean, we don't see a bull moose for Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. So for three days

00:20:44.020 and every day that passed, as we were sitting in the lodge for dinner, I remember thinking and even

00:20:51.280 talking with you, Oh, we should have shot that. Yeah. We should have shot that. We should have shot

00:20:55.400 that. We should have shot that. And I felt so bad. I actually felt horrible. I think I told you a 1.00

00:21:01.080 little bit. Yeah. Cause I wanted it to be a successful hunt for you. And so I felt horrible

00:21:05.840 that we had this opportunity and just passed on it. Cause we thought we'd have a better opportunity.

00:21:11.900 Yeah. So we go out Saturday. So here the hunt is, is six days, Monday through Saturday. That's all

00:21:17.700 you have. And we go out Saturday. It's our last day, Saturday morning. And the first thing we come

00:21:23.220 across is, um, Oh, the Saturday, the Saturday. Okay. Well, we were going up this road to that

00:21:30.640 first cut where we saw those, uh, moose on Tuesday and I was asleep and I woke up and you guys are

00:21:38.340 like, there's a moose right there. No, no, no, no. Before that we saw a moose before that. Yeah,

00:21:42.980 I know. That's the one I'm saying. Oh, okay. And you're like, there's a moose right there. And it

00:21:47.100 was a cow that we saw from Friday. Yeah. Poor thing. It had brain worms. So its head was cocked

00:21:53.880 and it just runs in circles pretty much and can't do anything. I'm going to have to look into that

00:21:58.460 because I don't really know of that. It's, it's sad, but they, yeah, they basically turn into

00:22:03.100 living zombies almost. Yeah. But its head was like hung over and tilted to the side. Yeah. And it,

00:22:09.520 they just walk and graze, but they just basically walk in circles. So this female, this, uh, this cow, 0.97

00:22:14.560 this female moose was there pretty much in the same spot, maybe 30 or 40 yards away, 1.00

00:22:20.940 but pretty much in the same spot. We just saw her 24 hours earlier. Yeah. So we saw her

00:22:25.920 and then we were just watched there for maybe 10 minutes to see if a bull was with her. But Mike's

00:22:31.000 like that, that cow wouldn't have a boyfriend because look at how she looks. And she was apparently 1.00

00:22:37.520 like really old and skinny. Mike said she wasn't healthy. Well, it's probably cause the brain 0.99

00:22:42.560 warm too. Cause I don't think they can eat as good. Yeah. I have that going on. So I fall back

00:22:47.700 asleep and then you tell the rest. Cause I, I was asleep for the first part of our. Yeah. This

00:22:54.120 little guy slept so much. Little guy, little, little, this little teeny guy, this little baby

00:23:00.520 slept so much. You only have like, I don't even know how much pounds you got. I mean, I'm already

00:23:06.220 taller than you. So need a bulk. You're always going to be a little baby in my mind. No, my little 0.86

00:23:12.340 baby boy. Uh, yeah. So sleeping again and, uh, we were driving up the road. I'm like, oh, there,

00:23:20.800 there's a, there's a cow. I'm like, I'm looking. I'm like, where? I don't see it. Where? He's like,

00:23:25.900 right there. I'm like, I don't see it. So he's like, just get out, get, grab your gun. So I get

00:23:30.340 out and I'm like, Brett, get up. And you're like, huh? What was happening? What are we doing? Huh?

00:23:37.480 I'm like, get up, grab your gun, get up like chamber around. Let's go. And so you did kind

00:23:42.640 of gobbly. No, I got out pretty quick. You got out quick. But when I was telling you like chamber

00:23:47.060 around, like, I'm like, don't slam, don't close your door. Just leave it open. I was like, I know

00:23:51.440 how to shut a door quietly. Kind of. Yeah. Except for all the times you just slamming it

00:23:55.580 before. Yeah. So we walk up the road, probably, I don't know, 40 yards. No, it was like five

00:24:02.600 yards. We literally walked like five yards from the truck. No. Yeah. Really? Okay. So

00:24:07.300 we walk. No, it was further than that. No. I know why. It was like five to 10 yards. No,

00:24:11.460 it was longer. Nope. It was like 30 to 40. So we walked 30 to 40 yards up, maybe 20, we'll

00:24:16.400 split it. And Mike and I are looking off to the right where we saw this cow. And I could

00:24:23.480 just see your ears poked up and you look down the lane and there's two bulls up there at

00:24:28.960 the top. Yeah. And they were probably 300 yards away. And I could see the paddles move

00:24:33.580 and you guys couldn't. We couldn't see them. Figure it out. Even with the binos on. Well,

00:24:37.640 I didn't use my binos. I put my gun up to it and looked at it through the optic. By the

00:24:41.860 way, Vortex hooked us up. Yeah. Yeah. Shamus over at Vortex hooked us up. But we were looking

00:24:47.980 through our, I was looking through my rifle scope. Yeah. And I was like, oh yeah, there

00:24:53.340 they are. And I had a pretty good beat on them and we were actually going to shoot at

00:24:56.760 them. Yeah. And Mike's like, no, no, no, no, don't shoot because there's two of them 0.93

00:25:00.800 up there and we don't know which one is where. Like don't, don't. And by the time we were getting

00:25:06.880 ready to shoot, they had looked directly at us. So they weren't broadside anymore. Like

00:25:11.660 he was just, it was just not a good, smart decision to shoot. So we didn't. And then

00:25:17.760 we kind of put our guns down and that cow got a little spooked to cow. I just saw the

00:25:25.440 one, but the two got a little spooked and they started to trot off. And in my head, I

00:25:31.740 was like, oh crap, those bulls are going to run off now. So we were going to work down 0.99

00:25:36.700 there. We're going to get our shooting sticks and try to work into those bulls up top of the 0.99

00:25:40.240 line. If we got a hundred yards closer, we could have probably shot them. But those 0.99

00:25:44.400 cows started trotting off and I was like, oh crap, those bulls are going to go. And so 0.91

00:25:49.180 I'm just like watching them. And you guys were still watching the bulls up top. Right. And

00:25:53.440 I just see a bull pop up and turn broadside and he's staring right at me. And I'm like,

00:25:58.280 guys, right there, right there. And I, we were going to go three, two, one, and both of us

00:26:02.820 shoot at the same time. But so I put my gun up on this and I'm like, dad, get your gun,

00:26:08.020 get your gun. And he's like, I can't find it. I can't find it. I'm like, gotta shoot

00:26:11.880 it.

00:26:12.080 Well, I couldn't find it because I was so zoomed in on my optic. Cause we were looking

00:26:16.160 at those boot moose that were like 300 yards away. And I didn't reset my optic to a, to

00:26:22.800 lower magnification.

00:26:24.060 Yeah. So I'm like, shoot, start shooting. And you're still like, I can't find it. So

00:26:28.500 I'm like, screw it. I'm just going to start shooting. So I started shooting at this thing 0.99

00:26:32.940 and first shot I missed. I don't even know. You think I hit it in the lungs once? Do I

00:26:38.200 think?

00:26:38.580 Yeah. Do you not think I did?

00:26:39.660 I don't think you hit it.

00:26:40.900 Well, I shot.

00:26:42.260 Cause he didn't shudder at all.

00:26:43.620 I shot three times and missed all my shots. And then my dad racks one, shoots, misses

00:26:48.940 first shot. And then he racks another one and hits it right in the neck and it drops right 0.95

00:26:54.080 there.

00:26:54.280 No, dude, you're getting ahead of yourself.

00:26:56.280 Sorry.

00:26:56.800 Tell the story like a hunter.

00:26:58.200 My dad hits it.

00:26:59.020 You got to build up anticipation.

00:27:00.480 My dad hits it and it drops.

00:27:02.700 There you go. And I start running towards this thing.

00:27:05.580 Let's hold on. You need to learn the way of telling a story.

00:27:09.000 Okay. You tell it then. You tell it then.

00:27:09.960 Just slow down. Like let's tell the story with some, some gusto here.

00:27:14.980 Okay. You tell it then.

00:27:16.140 So we rack one, shoot it. I shoot at it, miss. And I'm like, man, I've got one more shot to 1.00

00:27:24.860 take here. And if I miss this, not only do I suck at shooting and hunting, 0.93

00:27:30.480 you can't hit a moose. That's kind of sad. Well, I didn't hit him. So neither, but it

00:27:35.260 was, we were on our shoulder. We were standing there. Adrenaline was pumping. We were dialed

00:27:39.000 in with our optics and he popped out of nowhere too. We weren't ready. Like the adrenaline

00:27:43.540 was going. There's a lot. If you don't hunt, it would, it would seem like it's easy. And

00:27:49.020 everybody says, Oh, it's easy. Just one shot. It's different. Okay. It's different when

00:27:53.720 you're out in the field, especially if you've never done any of this before. Yeah. So we're

00:27:58.320 shooting like the wild, wild, wild, like Wyatt freaking Earp. We'll shoot just everywhere 0.99

00:28:03.360 and missing everything. 0.98

00:28:04.200 Our ears just ringing the whole time.

00:28:06.180 And I take a shot. My second shot, rack one, get right on him. Shoot. Bam. Smacked him. Drops 0.86

00:28:17.320 where he stands. Just drops. And all of a sudden I look over and I see you running over there. I'm

00:28:25.360 like, stop, stop. And you're running over there. And Mike was like, stop breaking. Stop running

00:28:31.600 over there. Stop. He's yelling at you. And finally you stop. I have no idea what in the

00:28:36.880 world you were doing. I'm like, bro, I was going to go get, I know. I'm like, just wait

00:28:40.700 a second. And in that time we had seen three other moose bulls pop up and run off. Yeah.

00:28:49.960 And then we looked at the top. Well, I looked at the top of the road and I saw two cross up 0.92

00:28:54.260 there too. So there was, there was at least six bulls that we saw. And when those others,

00:29:00.480 those three ran off that were by the one we were shooting at, I was like, dang, that

00:29:04.940 bull just got up. Cause I shot it and it dropped. I knew it dropped and then it got up and it

00:29:10.560 ran off. Oh man. So anyways, we rack another one, reload and we walk up there and I'm looking,

00:29:19.840 I got my head down. I'm looking for blood. Mike's got his head down. He's looking for

00:29:23.180 blood. And then I'm just like walking. Cause I kind of knew where it was. I thought it was

00:29:28.740 only like 50 yards off the road, but it, cause I had my sight zoomed in like all the way.

00:29:33.380 So I thought it was closer. And so at 50 yards, I started looking for blood and I'm like, why

00:29:39.360 is it not here? Why is there no blood? And they're like, he's probably another 50 yards

00:29:43.820 up. So I'm just like walking through the woods and you guys are just scanning. And I'm like,

00:29:49.180 there he is. And you're like, what? And you're looking at it. And I'm like, he's literally

00:29:52.820 right there. And I start going up to my, uh, to it. And Mike's like, stop, stop, stop.

00:29:57.620 I got to make sure he's dead first. Yeah. Cause you don't want a pissed off bull coming

00:30:01.620 at you. An injured bull. Yeah, for sure. And so, uh, yeah. So we just sat there and waited

00:30:08.980 for a minute. We were probably about 10 yards away from it and I could see it wasn't breathing.

00:30:13.260 Yeah. I was like, is he, you know, is he dead? Yeah. I'm pretty sure, you know, and he was

00:30:16.960 twitching a little bit. Yeah. And I just remember as soon as we knew he was dead, man, you turned

00:30:21.320 around and gave me this awesome smile and you were like shaking and you're like, Oh my

00:30:25.780 gosh, I can't believe we did it. We did it. And you gave me this awesome hug and it was

00:30:29.900 that, that to me, I don't, I think I told you that to me was the hug, the smile that we

00:30:34.780 did it. Just how excited you were. Yeah. That to me was so much more meaningful and cool

00:30:41.360 experience than the moose itself. Yeah. I mean, the moose is cool though. Yeah. But that

00:30:47.240 moment was amazing. So we walk up and, um, I didn't, I didn't see any blood from a wound.

00:30:53.960 Yeah. So we saw blood out of his mouth, which is typical, you know, and what? He bumped that

00:30:59.860 desk pretty hard. Uh, yeah, but I didn't see any, um, any wound, any exit wound or anything.

00:31:07.180 Cause he was laying on the side that we would have shot him. He's laying on that side. So

00:31:10.860 I'm like, man, where do we even shoot this thing? So we're moving him around a little bit

00:31:13.700 cause we got to start getting him cleaned out. And it was a warm morning. I have one,

00:31:16.700 one part that I need to say. Okay. Um, we were checking him out, like checking his rack out

00:31:22.220 and we were like trying to lift up his head, but he was so heavy. Yeah. It's heavy. And

00:31:26.400 Mike was like, just looking at it. And I see his leg twitch and all of us are like, back

00:31:31.940 up, back up, back up. And we all backed up and it was just as nervous, but it freaked us

00:31:36.100 out. Yeah. Nervous firing. Yeah. So we're moving him around a little bit and we're getting

00:31:40.300 him, trying to get him set up to clean. And I'm like, man, where is his, where?

00:31:43.700 Where did he get shot? And I thought it didn't pass through him. He must still have the bullet

00:31:47.880 in him. And we're looking and looking and looking. Mike's like, it's right here. It

00:31:52.080 hit him right in the neck and just demolished. With the 308, which is pretty impressive because

00:31:57.780 you use that for deer. Yeah. But if you put it on the right spot on a moose, I guess it

00:32:01.860 works. He just went down like a sack of potatoes. Yeah. Just dropped. He didn't even probably go

00:32:06.980 a step. So yeah, he's laying there and man, we got him gutted out and cleaned out. And

00:32:14.280 a lot of people were asking how we got him out. And there's, there's different ways you

00:32:18.320 can quarter them and pack them out. He was a hundred yards off the road. So we had some

00:32:23.100 friends that came up, some friends of Mike's that came up, or actually one of his employees

00:32:26.580 and his brother-in-law came up with the trailer and the four-wheeler. And it was a pretty cool

00:32:32.280 process to watch these guys work. So they, they took the four-wheeler on the path. They

00:32:36.060 wanted to go from, from the woods to the road and he had an electric chainsaw. So he's like

00:32:41.580 cutting some limbs down and things out of the way. Yeah. And they had an old plastic bed liner.

00:32:47.640 Yeah. So they brought that up there, hooked up the four-wheeler, dragged the moose onto the

00:32:53.300 bed liner and then dragged the bed liner, the a hundred yards out onto the road. And then we

00:32:57.420 just dragged him right up onto the trailer. Yeah. And he was heavy, heavy. Don't get to the weight

00:33:01.920 yet. I'm not. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves. He was heavy. It was, that's amazing

00:33:06.680 how big those animals are. Yeah. Like they're big when you see them, but then up close, it wasn't

00:33:11.760 even the length or anything of him. I mean, his rack was large rack, but it was the, like the width

00:33:17.500 from his belly to his back. I was amazed at how thick that area was. And like his hindquarters too.

00:33:22.780 I was like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. His hindquarters are probably as tall as me. Yeah. Amazing.

00:33:28.320 Yeah. Amazing. So we get them out and do our thing and pack them up, you know, long story

00:33:33.100 short, we're packing our stuff up because we're going to head home because you have a football

00:33:35.900 game and you want to get home for the football game, which I love football. So I'm like, let's,

00:33:40.420 let's get home. So we get home, but we have to go register them first. So we go down and we'd

00:33:44.000 register them. And the registration was fun, was interesting. Yeah. Because there it's kind

00:33:48.860 of a touristy little town that you register in. Um, what is it? A classic, but it's like

00:33:54.840 Rangeley. Yeah. It's right out of Rangeley. And, uh, you want to tell that story?

00:33:59.400 Uh, yeah. So we like pull up to the side of this, it's a grocery store, a gas station thing.

00:34:05.200 Yeah. And already when we pull up, we have people coming up to the bed of our truck to check it

00:34:10.400 out. And this thing filled up the whole bed of our truck and its head was hanging off the

00:34:14.980 tailgate. Yeah. We had to open the tailgate because it just wouldn't fit. And the way they

00:34:19.000 got it in there is they used an excavator and lifted it up into our tailgate. But so we pull

00:34:25.640 up and there's already like four people around our tailgate, just looking at the moose and

00:34:30.680 everything. So we go on to register and the lady wants us to pull around to the other side 0.98

00:34:35.960 and we get there. There's people taking pictures with it and coming up and checking it out. So

00:34:42.020 it was pretty cool. Yeah. Got it registered. They measure the spread, uh, points. Did you

00:34:49.440 see her comb through the fur? No, I don't think she did that. Yeah. She looked, I know she 0.98

00:34:54.280 looked cause she's like, I didn't see any ticks, but she had to comb through. So they usually 0.99

00:34:58.140 like comb through to see ticks and then, um, they have to take a tooth out, which took her

00:35:03.860 like 10 minutes to get it out. Took way too long. I was like, seriously, like it's not that

00:35:07.820 hard. Yeah. So we got it out though. Yeah. But there's a whole bunch of people

00:35:11.740 coming up and asking and stuff. It was cool to be able to share the story and how, how

00:35:16.940 excited people were. Yeah. And you know, it's funny cause I posted on social media and people

00:35:21.740 were like, Oh, you can't believe you killed that beautiful animal. And it's like, you

00:35:24.580 know, you kill animals, you eat food and it's not just meat. People think that, well, if

00:35:29.480 you don't eat meat, then you're not killing animals. No. Do you know how many thousands

00:35:32.320 of insects and bugs and populations are displaced when you grow, uh, uh, an acre or, or a hundred

00:35:39.520 or a thousand acres of, of corn, for example. And I'm not saying we shouldn't like we should

00:35:44.940 cultivate the land. I have no problem with that. I'm just saying it's, it's, if you think

00:35:48.960 that you're not harming or injuring or, or killing animals because you're eating vegetables,

00:35:55.820 you're wrong. There's still an impact and we don't get to extract ourselves from the

00:36:01.660 circle of life. We get just, it's, it's, we're in it. So we have to be good stewards

00:36:07.200 over it. So yeah, killing, killing a moose is not a bad thing. And people say, well, it's 0.85

00:36:11.540 just trophy hunting. It's not trophy hunting. Yeah. Okay. What we were doing while we were

00:36:16.080 out there, like when we passed on that bull on Tuesday, you know, we, we said we wanted

00:36:21.220 a bigger one. Yeah. Well, we do. And we want a bigger one because that those are the bulls 0.85

00:36:28.380 that have had the opportunity to pass on their genetics to the herds. And they're just going

00:36:34.260 to go downhill. That's right. A couple of years. They've lived their life. They've done their

00:36:37.780 thing. Now we need to let the young bulls come in and do their thing. And that's a healthy 1.00

00:36:41.660 way to grow, uh, any, any, uh, uh, moose or deer population. That's what I think we should

00:36:47.640 do right now. Put me out of pasture, old guys, just kill them. So the younger guys 1.00

00:36:52.360 could come in. Jeez, man. Good. Next. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. So, uh, yeah,

00:36:58.140 so we got, so we did that and then we had to go get them weighted in another place. You

00:37:00.960 want to tell them how much he ended up weighing? So we got an amount, cleaned him out. Uh, he

00:37:05.360 was 805 pounds. Yeah. Yeah. But also the funny thing is, well, was it funny? I thought

00:37:12.140 it was really cool. We had a couple older people come up to our moose and they've never

00:37:16.920 seen a moose in their whole life. We had one lady who'd never seen a moose in her whole

00:37:21.860 life. We had another one that hadn't seen a moose that close. And it was just really

00:37:25.980 cool. They were so excited to see it. Yeah. And everyone was like, that's a really good

00:37:30.700 bull. Yeah. He ended up being 47 inches across and with 20 points. Yeah. 19. I think it was

00:37:38.720 19. 19 points. She said 20, but Mike counted 20. So I, I believe Mike, Mike, I'll take 20

00:37:45.400 though. Mike counted 19. Yeah. Yeah. And you counted, you counted them too. I think there

00:37:48.820 was 19, but anyways, uh, then we got them weighed 805 pounds, put them in the back of

00:37:52.400 the truck. We were going to take them to the, uh, to the butcher, but I thought it'd be

00:37:56.900 cool to take them home first. Cause the butcher was on the way or home was on the way to the

00:38:00.420 butcher. So we brought them home. So, uh, mom and the kids could see them and they were

00:38:05.660 excited. And so was everybody else as we were driving through town. There was a guy behind

00:38:09.100 us taking a video. We had guys taking videos and pictures of the moose in our tailgate, which I

00:38:13.260 thought was really weird. So, yeah. So we took him to the butcher that evening. So we shot

00:38:17.900 him at, uh, 730, 720 in the morning. Uh, and then he was at the butcher by four o'clock

00:38:26.100 that afternoon, getting broken down and got his cape and his, his rack and the taxidermist

00:38:32.600 has already picked that up. So already. Oh, dang. Yeah. What taxidermist did you go with?

00:38:37.640 Uh, I can't remember the name of it. Was it that antique one that Mike told us on the road?

00:38:42.100 Yeah. Okay. Uh, yeah, I think so. Nice. So I got to go pay him today, but yeah. Um,

00:38:47.340 man, what an awesome experience. Yeah. It's, it could potentially be a once in a lifetime

00:38:51.960 type thing. You know, it's your, the odds of you, um, drawing out or me drawing out for

00:38:58.620 that are significantly lower. Now I have to wait three years since I drew out for that.

00:39:01.860 So like I can still put in a mom can. Yeah. If we put you as our sub permitty, could you 0.99

00:39:07.700 still come on that hunt? I don't know for sure, but I think I can come as a sub permitty.

00:39:11.580 Oh, okay. But I can't come as, I can't have a permanent holder, but I can come as a sub

00:39:15.560 permitty. Okay. So yeah. And we made some memories out there. We had a good time, um, told some

00:39:21.760 stories, shared some stuff. Like it was fun. You know, the cool thing about hunting is it's

00:39:26.660 not just about the hunt. It's about the memories. It's about the lessons, the people that we

00:39:31.900 meet, the life experiences, of course, the bonding between you and me, you know, more happens

00:39:36.700 in five or six days than could happen in five or six months. Yeah.

00:39:40.680 Which is really cool. Yeah. I think the first part of the week, the odds are kind of stacked

00:39:47.140 against us. No, they were hot. They were good. The first part. Well, I'm just like the middle,

00:39:52.000 like the middle. Yeah. A couple of days. Cause it was hot and one day it was raining the whole

00:39:56.780 day. So odds are kind of stacked against us during the middle of the week. And then last

00:40:01.720 minute we shot it. So, well, it paid off to wait. Yeah. I didn't know it was going to,

00:40:06.660 honestly, I thought, uh, we're not going to get one. Yeah. I was kind of like, dad won't

00:40:11.240 be able to put in for another three years. And yeah. So we got one though. So you got

00:40:16.060 it done. Yeah. Well, I had a great time with you, bud. I'm going to remember that hunt

00:40:19.320 forever. Yeah. It was such a cool experience to be there with you and to share that moment

00:40:25.280 with you and to work on it together and to have our moose, you know, and then, and then

00:40:30.540 to be able, of course, we didn't talk about it much, but to put all the meat in the freezer,

00:40:33.820 that's going to be probably four or 500 pounds of meat. I don't know. Maybe not that much.

00:40:40.800 Maybe like three. That's what the guy said. 300 or so. I don't, I don't know. Which is

00:40:43.900 still a ton of meat. Yeah. Um, our good friend Brody Cousineau brought over an extra cooler

00:40:49.080 he had. Oh, he did. Did you see that? No, I did. I think he must've been at, uh, lifting.

00:40:53.860 Yeah, he was. No, you, you were at lifting when he brought it over. Oh yeah. Cause he came

00:40:58.120 over to lifting. So he must've dropped it off and just went over. Yeah. Yeah. So he dropped

00:41:02.660 off a cooler. So we should have that back in a week or so. And yeah, we'll be dining like

00:41:06.760 Kings. I can't wait to get the tenderloins. We should have taken those out. Yeah. But it

00:41:13.000 would have been a mess and a nightmare. Yeah. That would have been cool though. To bring

00:41:16.720 some, some moose tenderloins home. Literally in the middle of the week where you weren't seeing

00:41:21.180 anything. I was like moose tenderloins right now would be so good. But dinner last night,

00:41:25.640 we had some beef from, uh, one of our neighbors, a cattle rancher here. Yeah. Holy cow. On

00:41:30.420 the trigger. Really good. That was great. Yeah. It was unbelievable. It's tender. The flavor

00:41:34.340 was delicious. Mom does a good job on that stuff. Yeah. Well, cool. So there's our moose

00:41:38.720 hunting story. Guys, if you haven't hunted, I would suggest you try to get into hunting

00:41:42.620 cause you're going to learn a lot, uh, really applicable skills, obviously. And then you're

00:41:46.620 going to build memories with friends and family and people you care about. Yeah. And if you

00:41:50.600 are into hunting, you already know all of that. And this is a short, uh, a story

00:41:54.060 that hopefully inspires you. Hopefully you have your own, I'm sure you do stories to

00:41:59.760 share and tell. Yeah. Keep telling those stories. Cause what a great way to bond and

00:42:04.140 to share some of these cool experiences. I think one thing that might help non hunters 0.95

00:42:08.240 understand this more, Mike was talking about it with you. He's like, I wonder if God likes

00:42:14.200 us killing his creatures that he's made. Yeah. And you just said, well, God put them on the

00:42:18.900 earth for us to use and to harvest and provide for family and friends. So. Right. And he's

00:42:24.040 given us dominion over nature. If you do it respectfully and in the right way, then I think

00:42:29.900 he appreciates it. But if you don't do it respectfully, then that's a problem. Well, and I'm glad that

00:42:36.220 you said it respectfully because it is really important. And 90% of the hunters, even more

00:42:40.920 are respectful. They follow the rules. Uh, they care about conservation. They care about the animals.

00:42:47.940 They care about nature. I would say they care more about nature than somebody who just sits on the

00:42:51.880 sidelines and pontificates about how, how important it is to, to be stewards over the land. Yeah. It's

00:42:57.580 the hunters who are actually doing it. You know, it's the hunters who are out there who are face to

00:43:02.420 face with these animals. I told somebody the other day, you know, the only difference between a hunter

00:43:07.020 who eats his food and somebody who doesn't hunt is that a hunter has to look in the eyes of its food

00:43:12.120 and experience the full weight and responsibility of each male it partakes of. Yeah. And then the

00:43:17.340 other thing that we did is, and I don't say this, it sounds pretentious and I don't want it to come

00:43:22.720 across like that, but it's important that we share this with you is that Mike went down and I don't

00:43:28.540 know his faith. So we don't need to push our faith onto him or anything like that. I guess we could

00:43:32.580 have asked him, but he went down to grab something from the truck and we were standing by the moose

00:43:36.300 after we had, we'd killed the moose. Yeah. And you and I just took our hats off and we just said

00:43:41.300 a quick prayer of gratitude and, and thankfulness for the memories, for the experience, for the

00:43:48.680 bounty, for the harvest, for the food. And so it's also important that we remember where it comes from

00:43:53.960 and that we honor and recognize his hand in our lives. And also that we honor the bull, you know,

00:44:01.660 we respect and honor the bull that gave his life so that we could, we could have those experiences

00:44:06.040 and we could eat and fill our bellies. Yeah. And let me just say, if you're ever going to take

00:44:11.740 pictures or if you're going around in public, please wipe the nose or any blood spots, wipe all

00:44:18.660 that off and tuck the tongue in. That's just rules that need to be set. And I think more hunters need

00:44:25.300 to do that because it makes non hunters think worse about us hunters. And then it's not good for us

00:44:32.280 because people, more people go against us, I guess. It's that, it is definitely that. And it's

00:44:36.440 disrespectful to the animal. Yeah. To just have it there, like splayed out with his tongue hanging

00:44:41.400 out or blood. Wipe the animal down, put the tongue in it, like take a nice, a nice picture. If you want

00:44:47.640 to get your pictures, nothing wrong with taking pictures, we do, but get, it's a good way to honor

00:44:52.260 and acknowledge. Yeah. But do it as respectfully as possible. Cool. Yeah. All right, bud. Thanks for coming

00:44:58.700 with me. Thanks for telling the story. Guys, remember as we wind things down today, we've got

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Order of Man - October 18, 2022

BRECKEN MICHLER ｜ The Adventure of a Lifetime (Our Moose Hunting Story)

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